The government alleges Sikorsky did not disclose lower
prices on spare parts for the Black Hawk helicopter to the Army Aviation and
Missile Life Cycle Management Command, or AMCOM, based at Redstone Arsenal. As
a result, the military overpaid for more than 50 different components,
including nuts, washers and the helicopter's access doors.

The amount of overpayment was not included in the
settlement.

"With the current state of the economy, taxpayers can
ill-afford to overpay for warfighter necessities required to carry out our
defense mission," said Craig W. Rupert, special agent with the Defense
Criminal Investigative Service's northeast field office. "Unethical decisions
and instances of fraud occurring within the Defense contractor community
continue to burden the U.S. Defense budget and puts U.S. military readiness at
a disadvantage."

Stratford-based Sikrosky, a division of United Technologies
Corp., has operations in Troy and Huntsville. The Black Hawk repair work was
principally performed at the Corpus Christi Army Depot in Corpus Christi,
Texas.

The March 26 settlement involves not admission of wrongdoing
by the company. It does allow the government the ability to "recoup from
Sikorsky any overpayment plus applicable interest and penalties as a result of
the (overpayments)."